David Gilmour sets up a harrowing premise - the disappearance of a child. What follows is a completely absorbing novel that doesn't let up until the last surprising page.

A new collection of nine seamlessly told stories by one of our very best practitioners of the Short Fiction form.

"God and whiskey have got me where I am. Too little of the one, too much of the other."--David King, Chatham, Canada, 1895. Born a slave in 1847, but raised as a free man on the world-renowned, African-American Elgin Settlement near present-day ...

Told from multiple points of view, "The Fugitives" is the labyrinthine story of four generations of women trying to escape the legacy of their families. The women, and men, of the related dysfunctional Saint-Arnaud and Dumont families are at ...

From the author of Macdonald, comes a new novel about an extraordinary love triangle set at the apex of Canada’s national life at the dawn of the twentieth century.

A deeply absorbing novel of passion and politics, Laurier in Love ...

In the grand literary tradition of Gore Vidal's novels about American political history, Roy MacSkimming has conjured an extraordinary novelistic recreation of the last days of Canada's indomitable first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. ...

From the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize comes Austin Clarke's much anticipated new novel, "More". At the news of her son's involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison collapses in her rented basement apartment. For four days and nights, she retreats ...

Mark Anthony Jarman is one of Canada’s most original and compelling writers of short fiction. "My White Planet" is his latest collection of fourteen new stories, many of which have previously won or been short-listed for literary magazine ...

"Salt Fish Girl" is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place. Told in the beguiling voice of a narrator who is fish, snake, girl, and woman - all of whom must struggle against adversity for ...

When retiree Keith O'Reilly witnesses the murder of his neighbour by a pizza delivery man one night during a snowstorm, a unique series of stories begins to unfold. As the narrative seamlessly moves from neighbour to neighbour, house to house, ...

The Master of Happy Endings is a powerful new novel about memory, belonging, helping others, and the vagaries of the human heart. It is also a compelling story about how a man in his late seventies manages to conjure one more great adventure ...

When an elderly Bimshire village woman calls the police to confess to a murder, the result is a shattering all-night vigil that brings together elements of the African diaspora in one epic sweep. Set on the post-colonial West Indian island of ...

From the winner of the 2006 Marian Engel Award comes a funny, absorbing and timely novel about fear in our time. 

On a spring day in 2004, Jane Z. a physician’s wife and mother of a teenage son, opens her morning newspaper and is ...

These ten smart, tautly written stories mark the debut of an exciting new voice in Canadian short fiction.
 

Poetic, poignant and clever, "What Happened Later" is a unique and engaging story of two lives that were forever changed by one book. In 1967, only ten years after the sensational success of ON THE ROAD, Jack Kerouac was a physically broken, ...